"they laughed at me"

[montana500]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9178501/



The scenario was dubbed Hurricane Pam: 120 mph winds, a massive storm surge, 20 feet of water in the city, 80 percent of buildings damaged, refugees on rooftops, possibly gun violence that would slow the rescue.

"What bothers me the most is all the people who've died unnecessarily," says Ivor Van Heerden, a hurricane researcher from Louisiana State University who ran the exercise.

Van Heerden says the federal government didn't take it seriously.

"Those FEMA officials wouldn't listen to me," he says. "Those Corps of Engineers people giggled in the back of the room when we tried to present information."

One recommendation from the exercise: Tent cities should be prepared for the homeless.

"Their response to me was: 'Americans don't live in tents,' and that was about it," recalls Van Heerden.

[merbex]

1. Mr Van Heerden,you had the last laugh except it's not funny

[rateyes]

2. And all who giggled...

ought to all be put in leg-irons and shipped to NOLA and put on "morgue" duty, picking up the dead bodies. And, after that, when the water recedes, every one of them ought to be handled a shovel, and they should be responsible for shoveling all the shit out of the streets, and they shouldn't be let go until the city is rebuilt.

[wildeyed]

3. I guess they just figured he was another of those uppity intellectual

types. Wouldn't want to make decisions based on science.

Oh well, he got the last laugh, but as someone pointed out, it is not funny.

[Pirate Smile]

4. This sounds like science. I need to hear the other opposing scientific

view before I can make a judgment. What do Dobson, Robertson, and Falwell say?

[Ravy]

5. The Theory of Flood vs. The Theory of Divine Intervention...

we should look at both equally.